Roger Wilson used to be a really classy operator. He's been bloody awful every time I've seen him for Bath. Him and Fotuali'i are so frustrating.

Bath midfield has no creativity either.

Eh? Kahn’s been a great player for Bath

He can be, but he's also capable of putting in shit kicks, throwing passes to no-one, and slowing play when he shouldn't. He has a great attitude and a great skillset, but his error rate is way too high.

Nice to see Stephenson playing well again. He and Nick Tompkins are the forgotten men in the midfield of the English game.

Tom S is slowly getting things back together after a shocking 3 years of injury. Really interesting interview/podcast with him from Radio Noddy a few weeks back - how he's effectively having to relearn the tricks of 13 - footwork, body shape, head position, and how it took him the best part of 6 months before he felt comfortable with just taking a tackle.

I was there when he broke his leg 18 months ago - I swear you could hear the snap echo round the ground, one of the most sickening things I've heard in rugby

Nice to see Stephenson playing well again. He and Nick Tompkins are the forgotten men in the midfield of the English game.

Tom S is slowly getting things back together after a shocking 3 years of injury. Really interesting interview/podcast with him from Radio Noddy a few weeks back - how he's effectively having to relearn the tricks of 13 - footwork, body shape, head position, and how it took him the best part of 6 months before he felt comfortable with just taking a tackle.

I was there when he broke his leg 18 months ago - I swear you could hear the snap echo round the ground, one of the most sickening things I've heard in rugby

Grim. Seems a likable chap too. Looks much stronger in the lower leg than he used to be (or maybe it's my memory being terrible) so hopefully this'll put him in good stead.

Nice to see Stephenson playing well again. He and Nick Tompkins are the forgotten men in the midfield of the English game.

Tom S is slowly getting things back together after a shocking 3 years of injury. Really interesting interview/podcast with him from Radio Noddy a few weeks back - how he's effectively having to relearn the tricks of 13 - footwork, body shape, head position, and how it took him the best part of 6 months before he felt comfortable with just taking a tackle.

I was there when he broke his leg 18 months ago - I swear you could hear the snap echo round the ground, one of the most sickening things I've heard in rugby

Grim. Seems a likable chap too. Looks much stronger in the lower leg than he used to be (or maybe it's my memory being terrible) so hopefully this'll put him in good stead.

Think that's your memory - the thing that stood him in good stead when he was a callow 18/19 year was his raw leg strength - he used to break tackles that a 25 year old would struggle with. He's missing confidence still and now experience - for his age he's short of a good 50 matches or so, which at his age is significant

I was watching this last night and at one point the ref, Tom Foley, told one of the teams to stop competing for the ball because of a "dead ruck".

i.e. everybody was on the floor, there was nobody to bind onto and counter ruck, and the attacking scrum half was standing with the ball at his feet.

Nigel Owens does something similar when he calls "ruck is lost".

A ruck should never be lost or uncompetable (if there's such a word). If it's no longer a ruck then either the referee should call a scrum if the ball's unplayable, or it's out and anybody can go for it. This standing around with nobody able to compete and the scrum-half at leisure to weigh up his options is a blight on the game. It makes me sad.